Folding display frame



Dec. 29, 1925- C. W. TAUSSIG FOLDING DISPLAY FRAME Filed Sept. 26, 19232 Sheets-Sheet 1 INVENTOR.

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CHARLES W. TAUSSIG, OF NEW YGRK, N.

., ASSIGNOR TO JERSEY BISCUIT COMPANY,

0F NEVJ YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

FOLDING DISPLAY FRAME.

Application filed September 26, 1923. Serial No. 684,888.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES W. TAUSSIG, a citizen of the United States,residing at New York city, in the county and State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Folding Display Frames,of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates to display frames which may be used forsupporting cartons of goods to be sold, and particularly one which maybe collapsed so that it may be readily shipped in the carton which it isintended to support.

My invention will be best understood from the following description andthe annexed drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a perspective of anillustrative embodiment of my invention; Fig. 2 is a side view and Fig.8 a top view of the frame shown in Fig. 1 and Fig. 4 is a perspective ofthe illustrative form of frame with the carton in place thereon.

Like reference characters indicate like parts in the several views.

In the illustrative embodiment there are two side pieces bent up fromwire having a base portion 10, a leg portion formed of the two parts 11and 12, a back portion 13 which, in fact, is a continuation of theportion 12, a vertical portion 14 and a stock portion 15. As will benoted particularly from Fig. 2, the various portions, in theillustrative embodiment, are made from a single piece of wire bent toproduce the particular shape desired, the leg portions 11 and 12 forminga double thickness of wire to give added stiffness. It will beparticularly noted by an inspection of Fig. 3 that all of the bends ineach side piece are in a single plane, except at the point where thebase portion 10 is bent around the back portion 13, so that when thisside piece is laid down, it occupies a space of. substantially only onethickness of wire.

The side pieces are set up as shown best in Fig. 1 and held in spacedrelation by a flat rear spacing member 16 having its ends bent to formloops or sockets 17 at either end, these loops slipping down over thevertical portions 14 of the side pieces. This rear spacing member 16 ispreferably made so that the sockets 17 are relatively long.

Consequently when the side pieces are inserted in these sockets, therear spacing member 16 will prevent the side pieces from fallinglaterally.

The two stop portions 1:") of the side pieces are connected by a frontspacing member 18 having the ends thereof bent to form eyes 19 which maybe dropped over the ends of the stop members 15.

lVhen the frame is assembled, as shown in Fig. 1, it is obvious that itis relatively rigid. A carton C may be supported on the base members 10resting against the stop members 15, as shown in Fig. 1, and the frontof the rear spacing member 16 may be used for advertising matter. Byreason of the rigidity given to the frame by the rear spacing member 16and the doubled wires 11 and 12 of the leg portions, a carton containinga very substantial weight can be supported on the frame, although theframe itself is made of comparatively light wire.

The frame may be collapsed by removing the front and rear spacingmembers from the side members and the parts are so proportioned thatthey then may be laid on the contents of the carton C so as to occupy avertical space not much greater than a single thickness of the wire fromwhich the frame is made. Thus it will be obvious that each of the sidepieces can be laid on their sides on top of the contents in the cartonC, and simultaneously the rear spacing member 16 can be laid between theparts of these side pieces.

It will be understood that the arrangement which I have disclosed ismerely illustrative and that my embodiment may be widely varied.

I claim:

1. A folding display frame comprising a pair of end wires, each havingan upright and a base portion extending approximately at right-angles toeach other with an up turned portion at the end of the base portion, allof said portions lying in substantially a single plane, an upper crossmember detachably connected to each of said upright portions at pointsrelatively wide- 1y spaced, and a lower cross member detachablyconnected to the base portions, said end wires having no connection witheach 1cgther other than said detachable cross memers.

2. A folding display frame comprising a pair of end wires, each havingan upright and a base portion extending approximately at right-angles toeach other with an upturned portion at the end of the base portion, allof said portions lying in substantially a single plane, an upper crossmemvber of flat sheet metal having relatively long socket portionssurrounding said upright portions, and detachably connected thereto, anda lower cross member detachably connected to the base portions, said endwires having no connection with each other than said detachable crossmembers.

3. A folding display frame comprising a pair of end wires, each havingan upright portion, with the lower portion formed of double wire, and abase portion extending approximately at right-angles to the uprightportions from the upper end of said double wire, said base portionhaving an upturned end portion, all of said portions lying insubstantially a single plane, an upper cross member detachably connectedto each of said upright portions at points relatively widely spaced, anda lower cross member detachably connected to the base portions, said endwires havng no connec tion with each other other than said detachablecross members. 7

4:. A folding display frame comprising a pair of end wires, each havingan upright portion, with the lower portion formed of double wire, and abase portion extending approximately at right-angles to the uprightportion from the upper end of said double wire, said base portion havingan upturned end portion, all of said portions lying in substantially asingle plane, an upper cross member of sheet metal of flat sheet metalhaving relatively long socket portions surrounding said upright portionsand detachably connected thereto, and a lower cross member detachablyconnected to the base portions, said end wires having no connection witheach other other than said detachable cross members.

CHARLES W. TAUSSIG.

